The Group System Value - Avaya 4600 Series Administrator's Manual

The GROUP System Value

There may be situations where you have different communities of end users, all of which have the same
model telephone, but which require different administered settings. For example, you might want to
restrict Call Center agents from having the ability to Logoff, yet that might be an essential capability for
"hot-desking" associates.
As of Release 2.0, the simplest way to separate groups of users is by associating each of them with a
number, and editing the 46xxsettings file so that each group is assigned the appropriate settings. The
GROUP system value is used for this purpose. The GROUP system value cannot be set in the
46xxsettings file - only on a phone-by-phone basis. Instead, you should first identify which phones are
associated with which group, and designate a number for each group. The number can be any integer
from 0 to 999, with 0 as the default (i.e., your largest group would be assigned as Group 0).
Then, at each non-default phone, instruct the installer or end-user to invoke the GROUP Local (dialpad)
Administrative procedure as specified in the 4600 Series IP Telephone Installation Guide and specify
which GROUP number to use. Once the GROUP assignments are in place, edit the settings file to allow
each telephone of the appropriate group to download its proper settings. For example, the settings file
could look like:
IF $GROUP SEQ 1 goto CALLCENTER
IF $GROUP SEQ 2 goto HOTDESK
{specify settings unique to Group 0}
goto END
# CALLCENTER
{specify settings unique to Group 1}
goto END
# HOTDESK
{specify settings unique to Group 2}
# END
{specify settings common to all Groups}
4600 Series IP Telephone Release 2.1 LAN Administrator's Guide
July 2004
Server Administration
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